I just upgraded my old laptop (Dell Vostro 1500) from
F24 to F25 using the "dnf" plugins.
Video is now a problem. My selected desktop wallpaper
does not show, just a black background. Once drawn on
the desktop, items remain. For example menus still show
after making a selection although they are not active.
Moving windows leave lots of ghost trailing images.
If I switch workspaces then switch back the artifacts
are gone, but still no wallpaper. The wallpaper does
appear for an instant if I logout or reboot.
My normal environment is sddm display manager, mate
desktop environment, and compiz as the window manager.
For the latter I've tried both the emerald and the
gtk window decorators.
I've tried display managers gdm and lightdm, window
managers marco and mutter, and desktop environments
cinnamon and gnome. All exhibit the same behavior.
I also tried a root gui login to mate which exhibited
the same behavior.
The video hardware is nVidia GeForce 6800M, using Xorg,
not Wayland, and the nouveau video driver. No xorg.conf
file in use.
Suggestions welcomed.
Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com

On 01/02/17 05:52, poma wrote:
> On 29.12.2016 19:24, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> I have been using the "remind" calendar
>> program for a long time and I am now
>> having trouble reading the screen. It
>> provides a calendar page for the month
>> showing all 31 days on that page like a
>> conventional printed calendar.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to make the font
>> bold and a little larger?
>>
>> Better yet would be to also change it to
>> white text on black.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
>>
>> Bob
>>
> '.Xresources' goes to the user's root dir, i.e.
> ~/.Xresources
> Subsequently load the settings within:
> $ xrdb ~/.Xresources
>
> 'tkremind' goes to the /usr/local/bin
> Subsequently make it executable, as 'root':
> # chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tkremind
>
> That's it!
+
Plus more code than the list will allow
but received a copy directly via fastmail.
This is a great help to me, for the
first time in years I have a calendar
display the I can read easily! Larger
font, better contrast with white text on
a black background, and the display just
looks better all around. And now I know
how to mess with the display. :-)
Thank you for your time and effort in
doing this.
> Good health in the coming years.
A happy, healthy and prosperous new year
to you also ...
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-25/64it LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

I would like to change the cache mode of an existing lvm cache volume.
I see the following in the man page:
`With the --cachemode option, the cache mode can be set when creating
a cache LV, or changed on an existing cache LV.`
However, it does not seem to work:
# lvs -o cache_mode vg_raid10/lv_var
CacheMode
writethrough
# lvconvert --cachemode writeback vg_raid10/lv_var
# lvs -o cache_mode vg_raid10/lv_var
CacheMode
writethrough
(Fedora 23, 4.8.14)
The `lvconvert` command produces no output, and there is nothing in
dmesg or the journal.
Regards,
Raman

Hi,
I am setting up a new Dell Precision 5510. It has 16gb of RAM. I chose to create a swapfile of 24gb (1.5 times is recommended by RHEL 7 docs).
The swap is on, resume flag has been set in /etc/default/grub, and secure boot if off. That's my understanding of the common bug entry.
When I hibernate my system it simply locks the system. No hibernation is done. I gave Kubuntu a try to see if there is a problem with hibernation and it works fine on Kubuntu.
If you guys have any ideas I would really appreciate it.
Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.

I have a question regarding what is supposed to happen when I close the
lid of a laptop. I always assumed that closing the lid would cause the
system to go into suspend mode and wake up when the lid was opened.
What I mean by suspend is that the system should be doing very little so
as to not consume battery. However, what I have observed with my laptop
when I upgraded to F25 is that the system is still active. I have an
ssh session into the laptop from another system and this session is
still active after I close the lid. So the question is what is supposed
to happen when I close my laptop's lid?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Paolo

Hello,
I cannot rad DVD on my laptop;*
Here are the sort of mesages that get:
Gnome MPlayer Error: couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No suchfile or directory)
DVD subpicture decoder, DVD subpicture decoder are required to play the file, but are not installed
FAILED - Could not access dvdcdrom: /dev/dvd
gxine:
Either create a symbolic link /dev/dvd pointing to your cdrom device or set cdrom device in the preferences dialog
If you are using the ise-cd module ensure that you have the following entry in /etc/modules:
options ide-cd dma=1
Reload ide-cd module.
Otherwise run hdparm -d 1 on your dvd-device
/dev/sr0 on /run/media/pdupre/ROUBLEV type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks2)
The only thing that I can do is to view the file:
/run/media/pdupre/ROUBLEV/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB
WHich shouldme access to the rest of the DVD, but then I get an error message:
cannot find .......
Any idea?
Thank.
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